Turkish chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers in Ecuador

Six lines, mixed to your list.

Each line travels on its own pallet; the container is mixed. Outside the core range we source on request and load it in the same shipment.

What stays the same on every offer.

Rates and rules change; the quotation states what applies on the day. These points do not change.

Label

A Spanish label with the mandatory information for the Ecuadorian market: the ingredient list with the allergen declaration, the nutrition table with the traffic-light panel Ecuadorian packs carry for sugar, salt and fat, metric net quantity, storage, the lot, the best before date and the importer's details. For lines in our standard packs we confirm what the export pack already carries and what the importer has to add; for private label we prepare the label content from our technical data sheet and check your artwork before anything goes to print. Label wording requirements are revised from time to time, so we work from what your regulatory side confirms is current on the day, and we print no rule text on this site.

Entry, sanitary notification and duty

The sanitary notification for a processed food and the customs clearance sit on the importer's side in Ecuador: the notification is held with the health authority, ARCSA, before the goods land, and your broker clears the consignment. From our side you receive the technical data sheet per product, our certificates, the analysis report per line, the certificate of origin and the shipping documents named in the offer. On duty there is one line only: the offer states the tariff line and the duty that applies on the day, so the landed cost is known before you order. Nothing about duty or tax is printed on this site, because it changes.

Certificates and documents

Our certificates, with copies on request: the food safety and quality certification, halal where the line is certified, and the analysis report per line. We publish no certificate numbers here; you receive the documents themselves with the offer, per line, together with the technical data sheet and the pack specification, so your regulatory file for the notification is built from source documents rather than from a web page.

Port, route and temperature

Sea freight from Mersin to Guayaquil, with the deep-water terminal at Posorja, Puerto Bolívar at Machala or Manta as alternatives; the offer names the port, the transshipment, the transit and the delivery term, FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP. The leg is long and the coast is hot all year, so chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer: the temperature question is decided at the port and on the road, not at the destination, even when the goods finish in the cool of Quito. Turkish delight, sugared almonds and jellies travel dry, and dry lines can share the same reefer container, which is how a mixed load is normally planned.

What goes in the container

One full container, mixed across the lines you choose, each line on its own pallet: chocolate tablets, bars and coated lines; dragées and sugared almonds; Turkish delight, including the pistachio and the chocolate-covered types; sugar confectionery and jellies; and pistachio products, including the pistachio spread in jars. Where a line uses a vegetable-fat coating it is not called chocolate — the offer says line by line whether a line is chocolate or compound, and the price difference is visible in the same table. Mixing is the point for a first order: you test five groups on one bill of lading instead of committing to one.

A cocoa country, and what still comes in

Ecuador exports cacao and makes chocolate, so a plain tablet is not the argument here. The confectionery shelf is still import-fed on the lines the country does not produce: the pistachio and kadayif bar searched for as chocolate de Dubai — searched next to the name of the supermarket that stocks it and next to the word precio, which tells you the demand is at shelf level and price-led — pistachio tablets, boxed Turkish delight, sugared almonds for weddings and the gift trade, and gomitas by the carton. Pistachio spread in jars, which readers here look for as crema de pistacho, travels with them; we call it spread, because that is what it is. Turkish delight searches in Ecuador are still mostly cultural, the film and the recipe rather than the shelf, so lokum is the line that differentiates a range rather than the line that fills the container.

Dollars, price and payment

Ecuador uses the US dollar and offers are written in US dollars, so there is no conversion between the price you are quoted and the price you pay, and the comparison against your current supplier is direct. Because the shelf is price-led, we quote formats and grammages against the price point you name instead of one format per line. Bank transfer only: 50% with the order, 50% before the container leaves, against the loading photographs. The written offer follows within two working days of your list.

Sourced on request

Outside the core range we buy in what your list needs and load it in the same container: couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo, which is what most of the bulk-chocolate and cobertura searching in Ecuador is about and which the pastelería trade buys by weight, and raw nuts, dried fruit and cocoa. These are sourced on request; we confirm composition and format before quoting, and a coating made with vegetable fat is quoted as compound, never as chocolate.